Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-10
STOCK AND FARM.

Arkansas City Republican Traveller:
VIM Ingalls, threshed from eighteen
acres Ofland, 635 bushels Of wheat, being
an average of a little over thirty-iivs
bushels per acre.
Lawrence Journal: Sweet potatoes
are coming in IN large quantities. The
crop is the largest ever known In the
country. Shippers may fall below fifty
cents per bushel.
St. Marys Erpress: DR.. Mower
sayg he raised this year 1913 bushels Of
wheat, HOO bushels OF oats; over 200
bushels Of potatoes, and has the best
CON crop he ever had.
BalIeville Telescope: The report is
that there will be a good peach crop in
this county this year, Notwithstanding
the frost in the spring, which was sup
pose to have killed them all.
Dighton Herald: Capt Emmett, who
resides some miles southeast Of DighbOn
has timber that made an eight foot
growth this season. He has fourteen
acres OF fine timber on his tree claim.
Wa-Keeney World: Hugh Caskey
has s acres Of corn, estimated at 10 bus.
per acre: II acres of oats, at 90 bus. per
acres; 10 acres Of wheat, at 8 bus. per
acre; D acres Of potatoes, at 100 bus.
per acre.
Usage City Kansas People: The
Wichita Eagle says that all farmers in
SedgWick county, who sent north and
mort neast for their seed corn, have big
crops this year. Such is the case in
Usage county.
O-borne county Farmer: Judging
from the amount OF fine hay now being
brought 20 town, there will be No scarcity
Of th' important article Of feed. The
grow th Of grass since the rams has been
simply astonishing.
S.. Marys Erpress: We know 3
party in town, who last fail brought ten
little pigs for $40. He fattensd them on
the uffal from the house, and at the end
of {, months sold S-tWO died In the
meantime-fOr S138.00.
Burlington Nonparei: John Rogers
& S N raised thirty five acres OF corn on
Geo n. McConnell's farm that viii yield
fortv-fve bushels per acre. It is bottom
land corn, planted in March, and the ears
and the grain hard and firm. The ears
viii weigh about two pounds each.
The HoIyrood correspondent OF the
Lit o River Monitor says: Although
the corn crop in this section Is a total
failure, the past heavy rains have put the
ground IN excellent condition TO prepare
for wheat. As we ride along on the train,
We zee many teams working at the PloW,
and the prospects are that what the far
neIs have lost in corn they Will make up
IN n heat.
ST.. Marys Cypress: jerome Pitney
is shipping In corn from Nebraska, and
gets the same laid down at Belvue at
/ the cost Of 90 cents per busheL He went
TO Nebraska last week, and II he can
make suitable arrangements Will feed his
eatt there this winter. If our arrange
mel IS do not fail We will feed 200 head
of C. tile, near AbohisOn. We don't know
Of q single party who will feed cattle In
this community.
Howard Democrat: Elk cOunty's
wheat crops is shout all threshed. J. Q.
Pinuey who has done large Psrt Of tie
work. SAYS that the wheat be threshed
viii average forty or fOrty-fve bushels
to the acre, that tine smallest turn out
was thiItv-three buAhel to the acre, ma
chine measure, and that one crop made
sixty-oue bushels by measure and sixty
five bushels by weight. Had there been
a large acreage planted the crop IN Elk
would have been immense.
Wellington Standard: Some time
since, the STANDARD Office was the recip-
lient OF "a fine watermelon Weighing forty
two and one-half pounds, and noticing
{ the fact in our paper, we offered years
| sub5eriptiOn TO the weekly STANDARD to
any Of our farmer friends bringing to ths
Office a larger melon. Well, it has come.
| Mr.. G. W. Winkel, living near Belle
PLANE, has brought us one, a magnih-
cent specimen, weighing tOrty-tour
/ pounds, and Of delicious favor.
st. Marys Eepress: The late rains
/ have made the fail pastures the best for
the last Elk years. AS q general thing
the pastures were picked close, and the
late rains have brought them out SO that
at the present time, they are the best Of
the season. We have lately Travelled
over large portion Of POttaWatomias
tWGoaunsee and Jackson counties, and
every where In our travels the pastures
presented a green, fresh appearances.
The hay crop has also been greatly 1ri-
proved, with the cool days and nights
the5 viii soon come, cattle viii lay on
more flesh, aud do better than at any
period Of the grass season. last year
owing to the dry fall the farmers began
to feed cattle by October first; bat this
season with our promising fall pastures,
very few cattle VIII taken OF Of ths
pal lures before November first.
IT is a common practice in France
to coat the beams, the jOists and ths
! under side Of the flooring of buildings
with a thick coating Of lime wash IS q
safeguard against fire. 1t is a preVen-
tive Of prime ignition although i VII
] not check a fire when once under head
way.
Il PURPOSES, Ike eggs, unless they be
batched into action viii run into decay
Smiles.